Your Home and Health - Ellen G. White

could gain no advantage. To every temptation His answer was, "It is
written." So God has given us His word wherewith to resist evil. "Exceeding
great and precious promises" are ours, that by these we "might be partakers
of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world
through lust." 2 Peter 1:4.
Bid the tempted one look not to circumstances, to the weakness of self,
or to the power of temptation, but to the power of God's word. All its
strength is ours. "Thy word," says the psalmist, "have I hid in mine heart,
that I might not sin against Thee." "By the word of Thy lips I have kept me
from the paths of the destroyer." Psalms 119:11; 17:4.
Talk courage to the people; lift them up to God in prayer. Many who
have been overcome by temptation are humili-ated by their failures, and they
feel that it is in vain for them to approach unto God; but this thought is of the
ene-my's suggestion. When they have sinned, and feel that they cannot pray,
tell them that it is then the time to pray. Ashamed they may be, and deeply
humbled; but as they confess their sins, He who is faithful and just will
forgive their sins, and cleanse them from all unrighteousness.
Nothing is apparently more helpless, yet really more in-vincible, than
the soul that feels its nothingness, and relies wholly on the merits of the
Saviour. By prayer, by the study of His word, by faith in His abiding
presence, the weakest of human beings may live in contact with the living
Christ, and He will hold them by a hand that will never let go.
These precious words every soul that abides in Christ may make his
own. He may say:
"I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation: My
God will hear me. Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: When I fall, I
shall arise; When I sit in darkness, The Lord shall be a light unto me." Micah
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